Samuel Sachs II replaces long-time president Eugene V. Thaw

Achievements include inaugurating the museum's permanent photography gallery

Letizia Pani Ermini, the specialist in medieval archaeology, has been appointed president of the Pontifical Academy in Rome by the Pope.

The art world ronde

Charles Hope is to succeed Nicholas Mann

Mark Jones comes from directing the National Museum of Scotland

'I love the passion here'

Decorative arts flagship seeks captain who believes in its contents and curators

Anger at appointment of collector who imports the very objects the committee tries to keep out

Alan Borg's contract extended until next year

The incoming chair of the Preussischer Kulturbesitz thinks change is needed, but collector Heinz Berggruen defends outgoing museum director’s record

The Swede comes straight from heading Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Suggestions from a former Assistant Keeper

Has the V&A lost its head?

East Anglia University lures Elizabeth Esteve-Coll

She intends to look to global contemporary art while maintaining the importance of home-grown artists